Legal Opinion
Bliss v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Decided October 14, 1822PublishedCited by 58 opinions
Case 28.
1Opinion of the Court
THIS was an indictment founded on the act of the legislature of this state. “ to prevent persons in this Commonwealth from wearing concealed arms.”
The art provides, that any person in this common, wealth, who shall hereafter wear a pocket pistol, dirk, large knife, or sword in a cane, concealed as a weapon, unless when travelling on a journey, shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars; which may be recovered in any court having jurisdiction of like siims, by action of debt, or on presentment of a grand jury.
The indictment, -in the words of the act, charges Bliss with having…
2Cited by58 opinions
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- Peterson v. MartinezCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2013
- United States v. EmersonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2001
- Kachalsky v. County of WestchesterCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2012
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